Can a Secret Facility be concealed within the Antarctic Ice?

Can a Secret Facility be concealed within the Antarctic Ice?

In remote Siberia, an area containing 88 unmarked medieval graves was found. Experts believe that the people buried there are distant ancestors of the indigenous Nenets people. However, the Nenets have no knowledge of the gravesite. The bodies were positioned facing the river, which is a significant feature in many cultures. Researchers wonder what the significance of this place is, as there are no written records. The mummified Boy, his incredible grave goods, and the other 88 graves are all that's left to bear witness to this mysterious people.

Antarctica is a frozen desert where no life exists except for at its melting edges. On its southern side sits a deep bay known as the Ross Sea. America's McMurdo Station has become a hub of international polar exploration in this bleak and inhospitable place. In 1963, a lookout on the American icebreaker USS Edisto spots a stadium-sized iceberg in the Ross Sea and signals for the ship to stop. The cliffs of the iceberg are nine stories high. About halfway up, there is a strange dark smear visible in the pristine ice, and as the ship gets closer, it looks like debris stuck in the iceberg. The captain creeps the Edisto as close to the iceberg as he dares, and suddenly a dark shadow snaps into focus. Huge boards of wood and large pieces of canvas are sticking out of the iceberg's face. The crew marvel at this strange sight, wondering if these materials could be from a lost camp once used by Antarctic explorers.

Adventurers were obsessed with discovering the South Pole in the early 1900s. Famous Antarctic pioneers like Robert F. Scott, Ernest Shackle ton, and Admiral Richard Byrd all built camps on the continent. If it is one of these famous explorer's camps, how could it have gotten onto one of these giant icebergs in the first place? A helicopter is readied and flies over the iceberg for a better look. The flapping sections of canvas appear to be large pieces of tarpaulin, and the wooden boards look like the interior walls of a hut. The crew is stunned when they land on the surface of the iceberg and find four thick poles jutting out of the ice, which look like telephone poles. The presence of these poles clearly indicates that this was some kind of camp, but do these poles provide enough of a clue to figure out whose camp it is?

In 1940, an American crew is building Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd's third Antarctic base, Little America three, just three miles into the Ross Ice Shelf. Little America three was bigger than his first two camps, with room for more equipment and a powerful radio broadcasting station that required several large telephone poles for transmission. The poles sticking out of the iceberg could be evidence of Byrd's old camp, but they have to be completely sure. Byrd arrived in Antarctica with what at the time was the most advanced piece of equipment ever built for polar exploration - the Antarctic Snow Cruiser. It was last seen partially buried on the Ross Ice Shelf. If they can find it, they will have found a monumental relic of polar exploration.